Round 11: Tossup 3

One novel from this country in which a wealthy man creates jigsaw puzzles follows a “knight’s (15[1])tour” structure. In a novel from this country, a boy watches children’s cartoons projected from a “magic lantern” and waits for his mother to kiss him goodnight. A movement from this country that explored constrained writing produced a novel that does not contain (15[1])the letter (*) “e”. The phrase (10[1])“for a long time, I went to bed early” opens a novel from this country that sees the narrator remember his childhood after eating a tea-soaked madeleine. Oulipo author Georges Perec was from, for 10 points, what country home to the author of The Stranger, Albert Camus? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: France [or French Republic or République française]
<Literature - European, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 11
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%50%0%61.17
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-134100%100%0%44.25
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-304100%50%0%61.75
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-178100%88%25%38.75